Chapter 484: Burning the Military Port
It was only when the Far Eastern brigade rushed to the dock that the British defenders reacted and began to shout loudly. But at this time, all three companies of the overseas brigade of the Far Eastern Army rushed in. Many of the British sailors who heard the shouts ran out of the battleships and the houses by the docks, and as soon as they ran out of the disheveled clothes, they were shot and killed by the Far Eastern Army.
Only then did the British in the port know that someone had attacked the port of Portsmouth. In such a dark night, there was no means of communication, and they could not stop an effective attack in a hurry.
The two companies of the Overseas Brigade set up six machine-gun positions in the military port, Portsmouth city and other places, and each machine gun squad leader held a night vision binocular, commanding the machine gunners to block the various intersections, and as soon as the British appeared, they would be immediately beaten into a sieve by hand-cold heavy machine guns.
Portsmouth is now in chaos, Song Tao led the officers and soldiers of the commando, took advantage of the chaos to the Royal Navy Command in Portsmouth Military Port, most of the panicked British soldiers in the military port gathered here, under the leadership of the officers of the Royal Navy Command, with strong fortifications to resist stubbornly.
The British troops here didn't know where to get a few front-loading guns, and frantically fired scattered bombs at Song Tao and them, and the scattered bombs that came from the whistling one by one suppressed the commando so that they couldn't even raise their heads, and they were blocked outside the headquarters.
Song Tao picked up the microphone of the radio and shouted: "Artillery platoon, artillery platoon...... Drag me a cannon over a ......."
After a while, a dozen fighters ran over panting, dragging a 70-mm infantry gun. The platoon commander who led the team just wanted to report to Song Tao, but was interrupted by him with a wave of his hand.
"At this time, there is still some ink or something, hurry up and set up the artillery, give me a damn ......" Several artillerymen saw that the commander was in a hurry, and hurriedly set up the artillery under the command of the platoon commander, loaded the shells and aimed them at the gate of the headquarters.
There was a loud "boom". A cannonball slammed into the gate of the Royal Navy headquarters and exploded, causing countless clouds of dust and smoke in an instant, and bricks and rubble, stumps and severed arms crumbled in all directions.
But the white skin on the opposite side does not show weakness. Immediately returned the shot, and a large number of shotguns swept over with a whizz. Beat Song Tao and their hidden place to crackle. Song Tao was immediately angry, and yelled at the platoon commander: "Open the cannon, bomb me, so you can't recognize him......"
The platoon commander of the artillery platoon turned out to be from the teaching team, and when he was returned a shot by the other party, his heart was also angry, and he pushed away the aiming man to operate the gun himself, and fired five or six shots in one go. The gates of the British headquarters were about to collapse. After these shots, there was no movement on the other side.
Song Tao waved his hand and shouted: "Hammer, take your platoon to rush over, and the others cover ......"
Zhang Tiezhu hurriedly shouted, "Yes...... The second platoon on the bayonet, follow me on the ......" a water-cooled heavy machine gun next to it opened fire first, and other weapons joined in, firing wildly at the gate of the British headquarters.
Zhang Tiehammer personally carried the anti-riot shield and was the first to rush through the gate.
At this time, the gate of the British headquarters was almost dead, and the British troops guarding it were here. The corpses were scattered all over the ground by a few shells from the 70mm infantry guns, and the rest were scattered in a hurry, except for a few dying white skins who screamed loudly.
Wang Bo led several warriors. Picking up a bayonet, he disposed of a few wounded white skins, and then followed them into the attack. In the face of the attack of rifles, grenade launchers, and grenades of the Far Eastern Army, the British soldiers who desperately resisted with arquebuses were beaten to the point of howling wolves.
The Far Eastern Army frantically harvested the lives of the British, and many British soldiers threw away their weapons and raised their hands, and they did not escape their attacks. As Song Tao led his troops to destroy the command structure of the Portsmouth Military Port, the remaining British troops were very tenacious, but they were no longer able to return to the sky, and the Portsmouth Military Port was gradually controlled by the Far East Army.
Other units of the Far Eastern Army. It also took the squad as a unit, street by street, house by house, and cleaned up the urban area of Portsmouth, shipyards and other places. The battle went smoothly, and the unorganized British troops were beaten and fled in all directions.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
Then. The three sailing ships of the ocean-going exploration fleet also slowly sailed into the Portsmouth military harbor and were violently bombarding the British warships moored in the military harbor. One after another British warships were burst into flames, and clusters of huge fires made the entire Portsmouth military port look like daylight.
Song Tao rushed into the shipyard with his troops, he pointed to several unfinished sailboats in the dry dock, turned to the officers and soldiers behind him and shouted: "Burn all these ships for me, as well as the timber and houses over there, don't leave them for Baipi at all." ”
The warriors listened to his words and hurriedly rushed forward with all kinds of fire-burning objects. In a short time, the entire Portsmouth shipyard was ablaze. Now not only the shipyards, but also the city of Portsmouth and the military port were set on fire by the Far Eastern Army, and the city was full of British people running in all directions, they were hiding from the pursuit of the Far Eastern Army, and at the same time hiding from the flames rising into the sky everywhere.
There were gunshots, cries and screams, and fire rising everywhere. Even if you are far away, you can feel a wave of heat hitting your face, and your face is on fire.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
Suddenly, there were several earth-shattering loud noises from the docks of the military port.
This is the Far Eastern Fleet's engineer squad laying explosives at several important points in the military port, and now they are being blasted one after another. Song Tao was ruthless enough to simply blow up some of the infrastructure of the Portsmouth military port. The Portsmouth military port was also gradually built over a period of more than 200 years, and it would be too hard to build another Portsmouth military port according to the productivity of this era.
And that's not even counting the Portsmouth shipyard, which has a history of more than 200 years, was also burned clean by the Far Eastern Army. There were also large quantities of timber, tools, and workshops, as well as a large number of skilled shipwrights and mechanics, which were also burned to the ground in the raging fire.
The flames that ignited in the Portsmouth military port also aroused the ideas of the surrounding area, and people from the Isle of Wight, Selcy, Southampton, Lillsey and other places rushed over in small boats.
They sailed through the Solent Strait, and as soon as they reached the entrance to the Portsmouth Military Harbour, they were blinded by several blinding beams of light. Immediately after that, a dense burst of bullets swept over the sky, countless small boats were overturned, and the British who were floating on the sea did not escape machine gun fire. The Solent Strait, at the entrance to Portsmouth Military Harbour, was littered with corpses and stained the sea with blood.
The British troops, who came to the rescue by land from various places, were also blocked by the heavy machine-gun positions of the Far Eastern Army. In such a dark night, in the face of such fierce firearms, the British troops who came from all over the place were beaten all over the field, and the wolves fled.
Song Tao stood on the dock of the military port, looking at the sky-high flames burning in Portsmouth, listening to the countless miserable howls in the firelight, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little heavy, after all, the sea of fire was not full of soldiers. But he suddenly remembered the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, and the scene at that time may have been much more miserable than today. So the trace of compassion that had just flashed in his heart suddenly disappeared. (To be continued)